[Gs-devel] Freeze coming up for new Ghostscript features

[Russell Lang]

Raph,

>    The 7.0 release is currently scheduled for April 8, 2001, so that we
> have it ready for Seybold Boston. In order to allow sufficient time for
> testing and bug fixing in the beta period, we're going to have a freeze
> on March 1. Any new feature for which there is not working code will
> not make it into the 7.0 release.

I have currently submitted to gs-code-review patches for
  Windows & OS/2 code cleanup
  replace exit() with return.
  stdio using callouts
I am awaiting responses to these.

I have two more changes to send.
  Put all stdout/stderr access through a single function 
  to allow redirection.
  New API (DLL/shared object) interface.
The latter is ready, but depends on the former.  
I need to write the stdout/stderr code, but it is straightforward.  
Essentially it removes nearly all references to stdout or stderr and 
puts all output through functions outprintf() or errprintf().

I will endeavour to get these to you within the next week.

I really do want these changes to be part of the 7.0 release.
It will improve the Ghostscript interface on a number of platforms,
particularly Windows, Linux and Mac.



Russell Lang                   gsview at ghostgum.com.au
Ghostgum Software Pty Ltd      http://www.ghostgum.com.au/